Hair Defective-Six Like (RSL) Class II family of transcription factors is expressed
preferentially in root hairs and has a conserved role in root hair development in land plants.
We functionally characterized the seven members of the RSL Class II subfamily in the rice
(Oryza sativa) genome. In root hairs, six of these genes were preferentially expressed and
four were strongly expressed. Phenotypic analysis of each mutant revealed that …